Check if you can disable the "TCP Chimney Offload" feature in Windows Server 2008

During a server implementation I was working on the network configuration and stumbled across the "TCP Chimney Offload" feature which should be disabled. So I would like to disable.

TCP Chimney Offload is a networking technology that helps transfer the workload from the CPU to a network adapter during network data transfer. In Windows Server 2008, TCP Chimney Offload enables the Windows networking subsystem to offload the processing of a TCP/IP connection to a network adapter that includes special support for TCP/IP offload processing. TCP Chimney Offload is available in all versions of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista. Both TCP/IPv4 connections and TCP/IPv6 connections can be offloaded if the network adapter supports this feature.

To check that run "Netstat -T" locally on the affected server and examine the output. It will look something like this...

Active Connections

Proto Local Address Foreign Address State Offload State

TCP Server:ldap Server.domain.com:1047 ESTABLISHED InHost

If the "Offload State" shows the value InHost this means the server is still handling the load itself (so it should be save anyway to delete this feature). If you wish to temporarly disable the "TCP Chimney Offload" you can use the command (no reboot needed):